The game is a grandiose third-person action-adventure which faithfully follows the plot and events of the film from A to Z, removing only some vehicular action and in fact adding and imagining many scenes.Īs a satisfying film-to-videogame translation, this is definitely one of the finest I have ever played, in spite of the very obvious straining of a game engine stretched thin as it's called upon to rein in hundreds of varied characters and situations across several fully-realised worlds. Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace - which I shall refer to simply as 'Episode 1' - blasts off with the John Williams music and that dense opening scroll. Taxation? Was anyone else distressed by the opening scroll for the fourth Star Wars film the first time they read it?Īs confusingly as the film begins, so does the game. The Greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo with a blockade of deadly battleships. The taxation of trade routes to outlying systems is in dispute. The Greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo with a blockade of deadly battleships." " The taxation of trade routes to outlying systems is in dispute. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (PlayStation) review